The 8232 Project

That is a very useful tool I overlooked! Thank you!

How does Arch Linux fair as far as privacy and security? It’s private in that it is minimalistic, but that may also mean it lacks in preinstalled security features.

I recently switched to Mullvad Browser from Librewolf (both are Firefox based), do those still fall under the same conditions?

(From the repo):

"The following are not in scope for this project:

Anything related to increasing "privacy", especially when at odds with improving security"

It’s a bit of a vague claim, since privacy encompasses many things (e.g. encryption could be considered a privacy tool). I may look into it though!

Have you encountered any issues with your setup? I appreciate your suggestion!

I had installed an app (flatpak) that required the use of my microphone. I knew I had disabled microphone permissions globally in settings, so I went into settings and turned microphone access on. The app successfully used my microphone, but the issue is it doesn’t show up as an app that requested microphone permissions in settings. Further reading showed that sandboxed apps are forced to request microphone access, but unsandboxed apps can freely use the microphone. This led me to believe that the flatpaks I had been installing were not sandboxed. I could be wrong, so some insight would be much appreciated!

It’s been on my to-do list for a while to try. Thank you!

Edit: I think it may be applicable to mention that I have reinstalled Kali 3 times. The first time it broke after an update. The second time is when I learned what a desktop environment was. The third time was when I discovered why seperating /home, /etc, and so on into different partitions is bad if you don’t know what you’re doing. The installer for the third time was repeatedly broken (apps wouldn’t open!), but the netinstaller resolved the issue.

Done, thank you! :)

No telemetry and good sandboxing by default are the main two things I am looking for in terms of privacy. As GravitySpoiled has mentioned, Arch isn’t an “install and forget about it” distro, which is another thing I would look for if it were to be my main OS. If you have any suggestions based on that, please let me know!

Those are all great suggestions, thank you! Have you encountered any obvious issues or pitfalls that I should avoid?

Thank you for some clarification! Will it set me up to better understand Qubes OS later on?